In his third indictment. Then Police Identify another Murder Victim 27 years later in the Gilgo Beach Killings so why wasnt the Serial Killer charged in connection with her death. Plus back on the mat. Samone biles returns since the First Time Since the toke olympics. Could she be eyeing a comeback at next years games in paris . Welcome to the lead. Im Bianna Golodryga in for jake tapper. We start with the Law And Justice lead and the aftershocks of Donald Trumps third arraignment. Today the former president called on the Supreme Court to get involved in the case. It is not clear exactly what mr. Trump is asking the high court to do. But the former president claims that the charges against him are, quote, election interference. Trump pleading not guilty yesterday inside of a washington, d. C. Courtroom. And his next hearing is scheduled for august 28th. Lets get straight to cnn just justice correspondent Jessica Schneider with more on this. Lets start with the new trump request. Is thi
trump says he can t be prosecute under january 6th because he wa acquitted in a senate impeachment trial, and he continues he has, quote, absolute immunity from prosecution with his acts as president. jack smith is expect today respond to those claims before the appeals court hears trump s case. that didn t stop the special counsel fromn filing a new motn with judge tanya chutkan today asking the court to not allow, quote, the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates disinformation and inject politics into the proceeding. smith also wants the court to, quote, prohibit the defendant from introducing evidence, making arguments, or framing questions to advance a theory of selective or vindictive prosecution. basically the special counsel wants to make sure trump can t say this is joe biden s doj targeting them. and in the response trump said biden s doj is targeting him. joining me now to discuss is ryano riley, justice reporter r nbc news and author
Adapted standards for teaching black history, which claims that some slaves benefited from the practice. i mean, are these controversies surrounding education actually beneficial to desantis and the republican primary here? well, he sure thinks they are, bianna, because this is all he s been running on. again, this is all the culture war b.s. that ron desantis and sadly too many people in my former party think the american people it is the only thing that the american people care about. i will say that a good chunk of the republican party base cares about this stuff. to the point where literally banning books and banning speech plays sadly with much too much of the republican party base. and alensia, desantis is doubling down on this. he clearly has intelligent advisers around him who are sensible enough to see that this isn t helping him in polling thus far in the primaries. what do you make of the fact
Elected. well, there is a way. and i think obama is right in trying to wake up the rest of the country to the fact that this whole thing of the deep state going after trump really energized republican voters. republican turnout will be through the roof next year, i think that is what obama is really concerned about. we ll see what role he plays on campaign trail supporting president biden. joe and alensia, thank you so much. well a group of white police officers once called themselves the goon squad. now they re pleading guilty to a harrowing crime. the latest from mississippi. we ll bring it to you up next. wherever you go. wherever you stay.
Johnson and joe walsh of illinois. welcome both of you. alensia, if you could weigh in from a nonrepublican perspective, what world is blocking this confirmation of top military leadership something that republicans could view as a winning political strategy. never mind that the defense secretary is warning there that it is impacting our own national security. i mean, look, you could continue to see the republicans using the things that we need to do in order to just keep our government running to protect our nation. using this for political fodder, trying to make sure that they are be laboring the point on fox news, they don t trust the way that president biden is running the country as you mentioned the defense secretary is urging the confirmation because our national security is the top priority. and this is coming from a party that talks about security and talks about a strong military.